Road woes spark calls for revamp

A central Queensland Mayor says some parents in the area are so concerned about the condition of a local road, they are considering pulling their children out of school.

The Isaac Mayor Cedric Marshall says the volume of traffic on the Clermont-Alpha Road has increased significantly in the past few years and the road is badly damaged.

He says it needs to be upgraded from loose gravel to bitumen.

"There's a lot of heavy traffic out there, a lot of type-two road trains, which is three trailers, a lot of mining vehicles, exploration vehicles as well on that road," he said.

"It's a very important road, Clermont's going to be the centre of attraction over the next few years with the mining industry cranking up in the Galilee Basin and the west of our Bowen Basin region, so Clermont's going to be the spotlight in the next four or five years."